Seventy-Five Years Ago Today, The First Rocket Launched At Cape Canaveral

… which was only 24 years later after Goddard’s first rocket that jumped mere 40 feet above the ground.

The entire rocketry is less than 100 years old, and theoretical concepts of Goddard and Tsiolkovsky were not much older.

It took just a bit more than 40 years between Goddard’s first liquid rocket and Apollo mission – in a lifespan of a single generation.